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Old 03-30-2012, 12:38 AM   #1
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Started hacking out my floor pans. What do you guys think?

Hey guys,

I'm diving in head first and flying by the seat of my pants.

I have no prior sheet metal or even really welding experience, but what better place to start?

This is my donor cab, I know that down south it would probably be sent to the scrapper but up here in BC we take what we can get!


Rucket of Bust!


I had to make some patches because my replacement floor pans didn't come close enough to the tranny hump to cover up all of the holes!


I have a patch that will cover most of this. I'm still going to have to smash some more steel though


The kick pannels are F*&^ed!


Amazingly the cab supports are still solid. I have since painted em up with rust mort. You can see the patch pannel that I hammered out running beside the tranny hump.





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Old 03-30-2012, 10:27 AM   #2
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Rust sucks. Hope your project goes well.
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Old 03-30-2012, 08:14 PM   #3
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Re: Started hacking out my floor pans. What do you guys think?

Good Picts,I need to do the same with my 86 & 82 and the progress links will help me out....
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Old 03-30-2012, 10:17 PM   #4
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Re: Started hacking out my floor pans. What do you guys think?

These are not easy to get out of truck beds without a lift.
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Old 03-31-2012, 12:29 PM   #5
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Re: Started hacking out my floor pans. What do you guys think?

It was a hassle getting it in and out of my f$&d. We had to do it twice. If you want to do it safely it's a 6 man operation. Next time I would remove more stuff from the cab before man handeling it (bench, column, glass etc....)
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Old 03-31-2012, 12:36 PM   #6
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Re: Started hacking out my floor pans. What do you guys think?

Yeah the cab I got we tore the rockers up getting it out.
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Old 11-30-2012, 12:55 AM   #7
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Re: Started hacking out my floor pans. What do you guys think?

Tackling the rocker
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Old 11-30-2012, 01:21 AM   #8
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Re: Started hacking out my floor pans. What do you guys think?

Now why did you do that? Those where lightening holes!
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Old 11-30-2012, 01:55 AM   #9
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Re: Started hacking out my floor pans. What do you guys think?

Thanks for the pics! Will help me when i do mine!
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Old 11-30-2012, 07:06 PM   #10
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i dont see no pics i see one only
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Old 12-01-2012, 12:05 AM   #11
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Re: Started hacking out my floor pans. What do you guys think?

thread is so old for some reason the pics in the first post are gone...

its been a SLOW go.
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Old 12-01-2012, 01:04 AM   #12
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looking good
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